Child & Developmental Psychology

This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internati...

Research on physical maturity has demonstrated conclusively that the assumption of an age-homogenous development does not always hold true. This vo...

This book concerns the child's emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy y...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

Introduction to Human Development and Family Studies is the first text to introduce human development and family studies (HDFS) as inextricably lin...

First published in 1978. In 1963, John Flavell posed one of the truly basic questions underlying the study of childrens thinking; his question was ...

The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory challenging its scientific basis and questioning the releva...

This is the first book on the psychoanalytic treatment of children, young people and adults with Asperger's syndrome. It includes multi-disciplinar...

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issue...

This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and...

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Attachment, and the Early Years Learning Environment explores the concept of learning by presenting research and ill...

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the rea...

Youth in Superdiverse Societiesbrings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, a...

This book, focusing on the work of Jacques Lacan, examines psychosis in children, without ignoring the study of neurosis in childhood and concentra...

The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of t...

This book concentrates upon families where there is more than one child. It distinguishes between a sibling transference and a parent/child transfe...

The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving describes a theoretical model for the development of caregiving that complements and also extends attach...

Theoretically anchored and historically informed, Six Children is a book about the nuances of child psychoanalysis as these unfold in the encounter...

This book considers the principal physical and psychological ideas and thoughts of what happens to parents from the moment they conceive. The discu...

This book explores current research on young childrens beliefs and knowledge about the biological world otherwise known as folkbiology. Contributo...

This book contributes to the scientific and ideological debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process by rec...

The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and ...

When a child without a fully developed language experiences physical and psychological stress that exceeds the child's capacity to cope, the experi...

Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical resea...

In recent years commentators have speculated on the collapse of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relation...

Based on a rich seam of research evidence, this book leverages value in engaging with scientific enquiry to further understanding of young children...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltan Kodaly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes as...

In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood. ...